Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[NailBach]

Sohr Khai, first run. Got a group of all 1st timers. BRD with lowest possible iLVL and no knowledge how to play his JOB and or how to do mechanics. Took us an hour to get past the horse because of low DPS and BRD not following advise. Ran out of time at the last boss.

Tried to votekick the BRD several times, noone followed through. Needless to say i was pissed. Requeued, finished the run in 25 mins.

[Cipher_Zaabiz]

First start in sohr Kai. Was really eager and happy to tank this. Got in with 2 frenchies...

They did nothing. They let me die, they did not interact in any way they just stood around doing NOTHING!

That was really frustrating. had to wait for 30 minutes to start again.

But then this was a beast. Really enjoyed my run then and we wiped only 1-2 times after we got all mechanics.

[Santherelle]

Sohr Khai run last night.

All of us were new.

Not one of us looked up a single thing.

Our levels of problem solving were high while we tried to come up with strategies for the mechanics on the fly.

It was so fun and relaxing.

[Acantha]

Oh another one from last night, story roulette, got Praetorium. Was all ok, trying out healing on the story roulettes, still getting used to balancing with the other healer (so many overheals) but fun run. There's a new BRD so I tried to give some tips, asked them to play foes, they played mages ballad ^^; typed quickly, "no that's mages, don't worry about that unless me and the other healer are low on MP" so they stop playing anything. Asked for Foes again a little later, got mages again. I only recently started getting to grips with my songs myself so I don't expect other BRDs, especially sprouts, to know what they all mean (I know I know, don't hate me!) so I just said "oops no that's mages, Foes is the dark purple one". They finally sang foes but only once... saw their MP on full again with Omega at about 2/3 and no more singing... we had BLM and two DPSing healers since everyone's so overpowered we just chucked on medica 2 and went DPS mode... sigh

[Confidence_Trick]

I'm girding my loins for my first tanking run of Sohr Kai which may happen tonight but more realistically tomorrow. Since in patch terms 2 days is an eternity I am looking forward to be screamed at in apoplectic rage by a party outraged by my temerity in being new to content.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Sohr Khai run last night.

All of us were new.

Not one of us looked up a single thing.

Our levels of problem solving were high while we tried to come up with strategies for the mechanics on the fly.

It was so fun and relaxing.

This is what I love about new dungeons: Going in blind and having fun with everyone while figuring out the mechanics together

[NaesakiAshwell]

This is what I love about new dungeons: Going in blind and having fun with everyone while figuring out the mechanics together

Too bad this line of thinking doesn't last very long, after a month you'll soon get the "veterans" wanting the run to be done in 20mins or less with no mistakes and if a new person is in the group the "veterans" will leave instantly because after a month even new people will be expected to have read up on everything because the "veterans" aren't here to teach people. ¬__¬

Because history can't help repeating itself :/

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Too bad this line of thinking doesn't last very long, after a month you'll soon get the "veterans" wanting the run to be done in 20mins or less with no mistakes and if a new person is in the group the "veterans" will leave instantly because after a month even new people will be expected to have read up on everything because the "veterans" aren't here to teach people. ¬__¬

Because history can't help repeating itself :/

Agreed. Sadly it is one and done. Now don't get me wrong, after that month I'm ok with going through the dungeon as quickly as possible (so much rinse and repeat in this game the dungeons become tedious doing the same mechanics over and over again so the quicker through it the better imo...), but the 'veterans' who tend to leave because someone is new after so long is just down right wrong and very aggravating... We should all be helping each other out and not be dicks about it.

[Aramina]

We should all be helping each other out and not be dicks about it.

This is what amuses me (not haha amuse) but... people act this way and then later on complain that it is hard to build a static/find replacements if someone has to bow out. CAUSE AND EFFECT PEOPLE.

[Fluestergras]

My first time in the Wiping City of Mhach, both a friend who joins me and myself are BLM. During trash, my friend explains the most important mechanics, the first boss is okay, the second one almost wipes us, but we make it. Then we reach Ozma, while my friend explains things, people in alliance chat discuss about how this fight works, everyone says something else, then someone pulls, leaving me utterly confused, whee. I screw up the different phases, but I get the thing after the second wipe. People start raging after the first one, saying how retarded we are for not doing the mechanics perfectly at day 2 of patch 3.3. Yeah. From the third wipe on, it's my BLM friend tanking parts of the fight although at least one tank is alive, the rages don't stop, then I screw up a certain mechanic, we wipe about two minutes after this (it's the 6th or 7th wipe, I didn't count) and the ninja starts a shitstorm against me in alliance chat. Fortunately the vote abandon goes through right after this, at this point we have less than half an hour left for the clear.

Later, I sign in alone. The first two bosses go down smoothly, when we reach Ozma, I'm able to explain the entire fight, lol. People screw things up and we wipe two more times, but nobody is raging, everyone is learning and explaining, then we make it at the third try. Only three people are alive at the time of Ozma's death, it's the tank of another party, a scholar of mine and myself - who was tanking the last three minutes of the fight xD - buuuuut it's a clear, right?

Just... show some patience for people who don't know every new duty and play the mechanics of every new fight perfectly few days after the patch ;_;